NetDrive is a new virtual file system. NetDrive allows users to mount an FTP
site or a local directory or a network resource to a virtual volume.

September 02

Specialized to task, the InJoy PPPoE Client is designed to offer dedicated PPP
over Ethernet access. PPPoE is a standard for running the PPP protocol over Ethernet
and a number of the large broadband ISP's have adopted this technology for xDSL.

The InJoy PPPoE is specifically optimized for broadband access. It's easy-to-use,
totally non-crippled and can be evaluated nag-free. It initially ships for only
$25 per copy.

For users that require Firewall security, Internet sharing or VPN features, a
zero-loss upgrade path to the InJoy Firewall is available.

Blueprint Software Works (http://www.pmmail2000.com/pressrelease.txt)
CEO, Thomas Bradford, announced the appointment of Peter Nielsen as the new President
of Product Development for BSW. Peter Nielsen is the highly respected author of
PMView for OS/2 and Windows and will be brought in to manage the development of
PMMail, PMView and other OS/2 programs. The announcement also included information
about forthcoming updates for PMMail/2 and PMMail 2000 as well as a LINUX version
in development. The announcement can read at the link below.

But there is some good news about the linux drivers from the Matrox user group:

Not Just For Linux Although Matrox and most everyone is calling their new erm
Linux driver a Linux driver it is in fact a XFree86 4.01 driver and is not specific
to Linux, it should run on any x86 OS using XFree86 4.01. Here's the low down from
Konstantinos Konstantinidis.

Just a short note to let you know that due to XFree 4's neat module loader the
mga_drv.o binary released is not really a "Linux XFree" driver, but an
"x86 XFree" driver.

I just copied it over my previous mga_drv.o and enjoy the new features even though
I'm using FreeBSD. Basically as long as you use XFree 4 on a PC it will work, here's
a bit about this from the XFree 4 release notes:

"Since the loader doesn't rely on an operating system's native dynamic loader
support, it works on platforms that don't provide this feature, and makes it possible
for the modules to be operating system independent (although not, of course, independent
of CPU architecture). This means that a module compiled on Linux/x86 can be loaded
by an X server running on Solaris/x86, or FreeBSD, or even OS/2."

CleanINI deletes all Handles in the os2sys.ini of any objects not being used.
Additionally it can delete unnecessary PM_Workplace:FolderPos, PM_Abstract:FldrContent,
PMWP_ASSOC_TYPE, PMWP_ASSOC_FILTER, PMWP_ASSOC_CHECKSUM and PM_Workplace:Startup.

NewCalls is a patch for the pmmerge.dll. It increases the perfomance for INI-write-actions.
This reduces the blockade of WPS during INI-writes.

The file PMMERGE.DLL opens the INI files with the flag OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE_THROUGH
which has the consequence that these files are written uncached to the HD, so that
the WPS is blocked partially quite a long while. IBM made for exaggerated safety
reasons, in my opinion that is not necessary.

This Tool goes back on an idea from Peter Fitzsimmons.

At this the module entry DOSCALLS will replaced in pmmerge.dll by NEWCALLS. The
NEWCALLS.DLL contains so-called Forwarder on all functions in DOSCALLS except DOS32OPEN,
this function its by own _DOS32OPEN replaced. If opening files, _DOS32OPEN removes
the flag OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE_THROUGH and calls then DOS32OPEN in DOSCALLS.

I wrote now a Installer and shortened the file NEWCALLS.DLL somewhat (no, there
now nothing is missing;-)).

Supplementary product like DLLRNAME are more necessary.

In this version I have correct on installer again. If DOSCALLS on position 2
in PMMERGE found, a warnig was displayed. This I have removed. DOSCALLS can apparent
occur on position 1 and 2.

SysInfo project, a PM clone of Symantec Norton Utilities SysInfo for Windows
9x, now is updated up to ver. 0.57. You can download this new version both from
project home page and from Hobbes. Many errors were corrected and new functionality
was added. Please, read file Readme.eng, shipped with SYSINFO057.ZIP archive for
details.

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August 31

Congratulations to Rollin and Mia White!

Rollin White married his long-time sweetheart in a beautiful ceremony on Sunday,
August 27th.

Like Mia, OS/2 has played an important role in Rollin's life. He was instrumental
in many OS/2 volunteer activities, including the founding of the Southern California
OS/2 User Group for which he currently serves as programming SIG leader. Rollin
is also Vice President of Sundial Systems, and you'll find some photo highlights
from the wedding on our website at http://www.sundialsystems.com/articles/whitewedding.html

Join us in celebrating the nuptuals!

August 31

Bero and LDChen are looking for a person to port their Free PlayStation Emulator
(FPSE) 0.8 to OS/2.